OCD Awareness Week 2025

Leslie discusses the basics of obsessive-compulsive disorder for OCD Awareness Week, the ego-dystonic nature of the condition, how it manifests in those who have it, and the need for OCD-targetted therapies to be accessible. 

Playlist: Feels Bad Songs!

Please note that the Centre for Addtiction and Mental Health was mistakenly referred to as "Canadian Association for Mental Health." Whoopsies!

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Related programming: Typically Tuesdays 231009 - The ABCs of OCD!: https://cjsf.ca/contents/typically-tuesdays-playlist-10092023

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Referenced materials and further learning

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Treatment of OCD: https://www.camh.ca/en/professionals/treating-conditions-and-disorders/ocd

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: https://www.camh.ca/en/health-info/mental-illness-and-addiction-index/ob...

Just Say Maybe podcast (*EXPLICIT CONTENT NOTE*): https://justsaymaybe.buzzsprout.com/2023068/episodes

International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation for educational resources, directory to local OCD clinicians, community blog posts, and additional low-cost, accessible support and resources: https://iocdf.org/

Nathan Peterson's tips to overcoming OCD: https://www.youtube.com/@ocdandanxiety

Ologies podcast, Obessive-Compulsive Neurobiology (OCD) with Dr. Wayne Goodman: https://www.irondogbooks.com/item/n1QB7fqUKvzy85yNPyqE8g

Ologies podcast, Bonus Episode: The OCD Experiences with Neurobiologist Uma Chatterjee: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdbonus

Cultural critic and video essayist Rowan Ellis, The Sanitized Lie of OCD Representation (approx. 70 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUpEg2FO5R8

Book, Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts  by Sally M. Winston, Martin N. Seif: https://www.irondogbooks.com/item/n1QB7fqUKvzy85yNPyqE8g

Drag Race Philippines is the best series in the entire Drag Race franchise

The title says all. 

Playlist: Anti-Lipsynch for Your Life music

Music Time Wahoo!

New bangers and a short chat about the pausing of Canadian animation studio, Nelvana Studios', projects.

Underrated Girls' Love Manga Recommendations 2025, Part III

In the final installment of this series, we jump into Leslie's recommendations for yuri manga about romances between working age women (ages 23+)!

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Related episodes

Part I: https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/typically-tuesdays-playlist-08042025

Part II: https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/typically-tuesdays-playlist-08112025

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Recommendations

(Shoutouts:

Run Away with Me, Girl by Battan: https://kodansha.us/series/run-away-with-me-girl/

Hanamonogatari by schwinn: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/rpn6mdo/hanamonogatari-schwinn)

She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat by Sakaomi Yuzaki: https://yenpress.com/titles/9781975348823-she-loves-to-cook-and-she-love...

Collectors by Uko Nishi: https://www.yuricon.com/product/collectors-1-%e3%82%b3%e3%83%ac%e3%82%af...

Even Though We're Adults by Takako Shimura: https://sevenseasentertainment.com/books/even-though-were-adults-vol-1/

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Further learning

The Artisan Geek's video Vintage Anime & Manga #1  | The Year 24 Group and The Female Revolution of Shojou Manga (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYHsbcZlb

Saying "Spoti-bye" to Spotify

Leslie discusses music streaming and ethical music consumption in today's capitalist hellscape.

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Want to for real organize an idol music library here in Vancouver? Contact Leslie at typicallytuesdays@gmail.com and let's try to brainstorm!

Orientalism is everywhere

Leslie discusses postcolonial and decolonial theories to explain how imperalism and war on the "Middle East" are justified. Then, she discusses the her upbringing at the site of tension between being raised in an anti-imperialist household and her socialization in Canadian society in the early 2000s.

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References

Edward Said's Orientalism (1979): https://pages.pomona.edu/~vis04747/h124/readings/Said_Orientalism.pdf

Guayatri Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? (1988): http://users.uoa.gr/~cdokou/TheoryCriticismTexts/Spivak-Subaltern.pdf

Amardeep Singh's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" in Plain English: an Explainer (2023): https://www.electrostani.com/2023/03/can-subaltern-speak-in-plain-englis...

Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007): https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1247/Terrorist-AssemblagesHomonat...

Learn about the proposed Bill C-2 at Migrant Rights Network: https://migrantrights.ca/

National Indigenous Peoples Day 2025!

Celebrate Indigenous musicians on this Typically Tuesdays' Music Monday!

Mental Health Awareness From a Mentally Healthily Aware(ly) Individual

Waxing and waning about mental health stigma, mental illness, and mental health support from an intersectional feminist, abolitionist, and lived experience standpoint.

Playlist: May Days!

Typically Tuesdays' Tale of Two Wedding Banquets!

What ideas about self, identity, and family do The Wedding Banquet (Lee, 1993) and its 2025 (Ahn) remake of the same name  explore? What do these films say about queer Asian identity and love?

 Playlist: Gay and/or Asian

Anti-Heinous Loser Special!

Join Pedro Pascal and Leslie at the Cool Kids Support Trans Rights & Are Gender Affirming lunch table on this week's Typically Tuesdays. 

Playlist: The Pro-Trans Agenda! - Trans Musicians and Performers and People Who Love Them

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Further Learning

A Bit Fruity podcast episode J.K. Rowling's Spiral Into Madness (with ContraPoints): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSfKKxyC1Cw 

Nope-n AI Office Hours

A cocktail of music and rantings about AI-generated so-called "art."

Non Sweet's Talk Radio Taiban! - Part 1 (Full)

Non Sweet return on Typically Tuesdays and try to convince Sam into falling in love with their favourite idols groups! Will Sam be captured by the charms of these performers? Will Non Sweet's earnest words reach Sam? Listen to part one of two as the girls share opening statements and more about their beloved idols on this "Idol4Idol" mini-series special!

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References

Typically Tuesdays 24-06-03: Non Sweet says "Wake Up!": https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/typically-tuesdays-playlist-06032024

Typically Tuesdays 24-10-14: Touch (x5) -- thought about KATSEYE way too much (x5): https://www.cjsf.ca/contents/typically-tuesdays-playlist-10142024

FAKY - Girls Gotta Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um0Yk3ahDCA

FAKY - Sayonara My Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2qNswFNDw

ISEGYE IDOL - RE:WIND: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgSXAKsq-Vo

ISEGYE IDOL - LOCKDOWN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgMFpuos4Rg

≠ME - Mahoraba Asterisk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHjHo0qFXm8

≠ME - Jibun Sanka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F8uBVQHOe8

≠ME - Kimi wa Kono Natsu Koi wo Suru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6uOJ_jw6cQ

Meikai Oceanus - Meikai Oceanus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xCSRBdpmow

Wasuta - Just Be Yourself (Pripara anime opening 1): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I29Px9I0jg

Wasuta - Standalone Complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3yX1SdKIg'

Wasuta - Eikyuun Muchyuun de Koushin Chuu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hh8H2KPuuQ

Black History Month 2025!

Sharing bangers by Black musicians for BHM 2025! And a brief highlight about art, cultural, and historical preservation during times of political crises.

Pink Lady Versus Green Lady Showdown Spectacular!

Does Wicked (Chu, 2024) offer a complete 1:1 political allegory to U.S. politics? How does heroism, individualism, and good storytelling intensify hurt, fear, and hope about real life political struggle? Are most people actually a Glinda even when they aspire to be Elphaba?

Seasons of GFRIEND!

Popular K-pop idol girl group, GFRIEND, is 10-years-old in 2025, and what do you know -- they have a loving fangirl in Leslie! She unleashes her devoted praise and discusses the uniqueness of the group and how idol group production and fandom engagement compares from a decade ago to now.

Playlist: A year of seasons with GFRIEND

What's "In", 2024, 2025 ---- no outs!

Leslie talks about her 2024 reflexions. 

Playlist: Good 2024 songs!

A tumble into the capitalist hellscape

Leslie falls down the stairs and emerges with plenty of thoughts about capitalism and healthcare.

Burnin', Burnin', Baby!

Leslie shares a cautionary tale about being a human in capitalism. 

Playlist: Comfort Heisei era anime songs.

Office Hours: Tomoko Kawase Fangirl Power Hour

Leslie shares music she's been listening to at work while she works overtime, and oh boy, does she like Tomoko Kawase!

Touch (x5) -- thought about Katseye way too much (x5)

Leslie and Sam talk about Katseye, the latest hit global (K-pop idol) girl group sensation. How are K-pop idols localized for a western audience? Barring its multicultural makeup, what kind of girl group is Katseye? Is Katseye a #diversitywin? Wow. So much to uncover.

Suicide Prevention Awareness Month Special

Leslie discusses suicide prevention from an anti-oppressive, harm reductive approach.

***CONTENT WARNING***

This episode of Typically Tuesdays discusses suicide, suicidality, mental llness, ableism, sanism, police brutality and killing, force institutionalization, and state-sanction suicide at length. It also makes mentions of colonialism, anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, the opiod crisis, and classism.

Further learning

Oologies Podcast about pain: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/dolorology

Oologies Podcast about suicide: https://www.alieward.com/ologies/suicidology

Project LETS's website (https://projectlets.org/) and social media (https://www.instagram.com/ProjectLETS/)

Taylor McNallie on care: https://www.taylormcnallie.ca/post/you-do-not-need-a-certificate-to-care

Criminalized/Mentally Ill: https://www.instagram.com/criminalizedmentallyill/

Idol Girls' Summer!

Leslie discusses idols, globalization, Showa era classic idol songs, and the complexities of measuring Asian musicians' "successes" by how big they make it in the American market.

Playlist: Falling in love at/by the beach ft. East Asian pop divas and idols.

Typically Tuesdays' Actual Pride Special Episode 2024!

Leslie discusses the political origins of Pride, the history of the gay liberation (now known as the queer liberation) movement, the commercial of Pride, and the resistance of 2SLGBTQ+ in the face of assimilation.

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References

Black Lives Matter leads alternative Pride march in Vancouver (CBC News, 2017): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/black-lives-matter-vancouver-march-on-pride-1.4177636

Making Gay History podcast (2019). Season 5 on Stonewall 50: https://makinggayhistory.org/season-five/

Making Gay History podcast (2019). Season 5. Episode 3: https://makinggayhistory.org/podcast/stonewall-50-episode-3-say-it-loud-gay-proud/

Queer As Fact  podcast (2019). Episode on Stonewall: https://queerasfact.podbean.com/e/stonewall-1559352775/

The Queer/Gay Assimilationist Split: The Suits vs. the Sluts (Shepard, 2001). Montly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine: https://monthlyreview.org/2001/05/01/the-queergay-assimilationist-split/

This Pride Season Say "No" to Genocide and Pinkwashing (2024). Seeds - Jewish Anti-Zionist Network: https://www.instagram.com/seeds.jazn/p/C-L1L8pSdDL/?img_index=1

Update on Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) From QC4P & QUAIA (2024). Queer Collective for Palestine Vancouver. Queers Against israeli Apartheid.: https://www.instagram.com/qc4pvancouver/p/C-QP-PdPKvd/?img_index=1

Vancouver Pride apologizes for not banning police from its parades sooner (Vikander, 2021): https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-pride-apologizes-for-not-banning-police-from-its-parades-sooner-1.5385917

Various posts from @lgbt_history: https://www.instagram.com/lgbt_history/?hl=en

Let's talk about ~*~BOYFRIENDS~*~

Leslie discusses the latest reality dating show hit produced by Netflix Japan, The Boyfriend, perceptions of innovation by western critics, how reality TV is produced, and representation in context.

All Together Now, with Chinatown Together Part I!

Chinatown Together co-founders, Gal and Melody, join the show to talk about organizing as a grassroots anti-gentrification, cultural revitalization organization in Vancouver's Chinatown. In part one, they talk about Chinatown Together's purpose, goals, events, and how they centre seniors in their work.

Follow Chinatown Together on Instagram (@ChinatownTogether) and through their newsletter (Save Chinatown YVR).

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Typically Tuesdays invites you to contribute to our Pride 2024 special episode highlighting the ways in which you resist oppression and build solidarity with other queers and other communities. Your response will be aired on Typically Tuesdays' Aug. 5 broadcast (the Monday after the Vancouver Pride parade). The form closes on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. For more information, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeISHjL6yWC-yufwQg7bAfGwfdQCmAFWQZL6SpUn-vU0g_PSw/viewform.

National Myths of Canada

Leslie discusses how the image of Canada as an open-minded, tolerant, multicultural national is disproven in its activities overseas and immigration policies.

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Typically Tuesdays invites you to contribute to our Pride 2024 special episode highlighting the ways in which you resist oppression and build solidarity with other queers and other communities. Your response will be aired on Typically Tuesdays' Aug. 5 broadcast (the Monday after the Vancouver Pride parade). The form closes on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. For more information, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeISHjL6yWC-yufwQg7bAfGwfdQCmAFWQZL6SpUn-vU0g_PSw/viewform.

Anticipatory Indigenous People's Day Music Monday!

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Leslie shares a playlist of Indigenous musicians of the rock, folk, hip-hop, punk, and EDM genres in anticipation of Indigenous People's Day!

Semi-Asian Heritage Month Asian Special

But like, what's the deal with it anyways? Leslie complicates the month of observation and Asian celebration with hard questions around what celebrating "Asian Heritage" means in a settler-colonial country built on the values of racialized hierarchy.

Playlist: New music & obligatory appearances by Asian musicians

Listener Appreciation Week 2024!

Leslie appreciates you (yes, you!!) for listening to CJSF!

Music Monday: Time travelling, globe trotting, anti-CanCon

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Leslie shares funky and sad bangers from around the world, 1970s - 1990s.

Flighty, like a bird

Leslie's stream-of-consciousness exploration about mental health, nature, science, and birds.

Typically Tuesdays-zaka46, Part 1

Ayu and Leslie chat about why the Sakamichi J-pop idol girl groups are so popular among girls and women and their gripes with their company's single selection system.

Playlist: Sakamichi Favourites!

The Absolute Madness of Resistance

CONTENT WARNING: Extensive discussion of death, genocide, self-immolation, and mental illness.

Leslie discusses grief and resistance during the unrelenting assaults on Gaza, the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell, mental illness, and Mbembe's concept of necropolitics (2003).

References

rayne fisher-quann's tweet (as seen in Projectlets): https://www.instagram.com/projectlets/p/C325oLYOptd/?hl=en

Necropolitics (Mbembe, 2003): https://read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture/article-abstract/15/1/11/31714/Necropolitics?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Stef Kaufman-Mthimkhulu's soul loss: https://www.instagram.com/theslowfactory/p/C322_ZcAoVC/?img_index=1

Soft and Thrashy for Black History Month!

Leslie's mix of jazzy, acousticy, country, rock 'n' rolly, punky, pop-punky, indie tunes by Black musicians for BHM.

Super Office Hours Times Mega Deluxe: All Stringed Up

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Office Hours returns, and Leslie shares a playlist of songs with pretty stringed instrument sounds.

Typically Tuesdays Cookin' Kitchen 2: Dongbei-style pork and napa cabbage dumplings

Leslie advocates for the overlook, underappreciated boiled dumpling.

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Recipe by 老东北美食 (Mandarin audio, no language captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v30EIvK1G_s

Staying Tethered in 2023

Leslie recounts things that kept her grounded and going in 2023.

Playlist: Some good songs of 2023 (mostly).